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...fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways Of my own mind; and in the mist...
...Janeiro, winding up a 13-day, 1,200-mile sail, the 46½-ft. yawl White Mist, owned and skippered by G. W. Blunt White of Mystic, Conn., crossed the finish line first in the third annual sailing race from Buenos Aires, to win the South Atlantic Blue Ribbon. On a corrected-time, i.e., handicap, basis, two smaller Brazilian yachts, Cairu and Mistral, placed one-two ahead of White Mist...
...Curiosity Shop (Victor LP). Stagy old recordings, dating from 1911 to 1929, that should bring mist to many an eye. Among the performers: Maurice Chevalier (Valentine), Helen ("boo-boop-a-doop") Kane (I Have to Have You), Marlene Dietrich (Falling in Love Again), Fanny Brice (My Man), Gloria Swanson (Love). Added features: monologues by Will Rogers, De Wolf Hopper and John Barrymore...
...beautiful morning, with wisps of mist clinging to the jungle-covered hills. But the grimy, green-clad French Foreign Legion marched down Route Coloniale No. 2 beside their guns and tanks with curses on their lips. It was the luck of war: they had made a lightning strike into the heart of enemy country, but just as they had been about to descend on the Communist stronghold of Yenbay, the whole operation had been called off. Operation Lorraine it had been named-parachute troops leapfrogging an armored spearhead of 15,000 infantrymen, as pretty a piece of planning...
Nghialo was defended by a force of about 600 French and Vietnamese troops. Giap's first two assaults were beaten off with the help of B-26s and napalm bombs. After the third attack, in darkness and mist, a last message reached the military teleprinter in Hanoi: "Thank you for very close air support. Goodbye." Next day the French authorities announced that Nghialo had fallen...